700 W single-frequency all-fiber amplifier at 1064 nm with kHz-level spectral linewidth
Chaodu Shi, Xun Deng, Shijie Fu, Quan Sheng, Peiheng Jiang, Zheng Shi, Yanyan Li, Wei Shi, Jianquan Yao
Abstract
In this work, a single-frequency fiber amplifier with output power of 703 W was demonstrated at 1,064.4 nm in an all-fiber configuration. Cascaded Yb 3+ -doped fiber structure with different dopant concentration and hybrid 915/976 nm pump scheme were employed in power scaling stage to improve the gain saturation for higher transverse mode instability threshold. An overall optical efficiency of 67.5% was achieved at the maximum output power and the M 2 was measured to be ∼1.4. A spectral linewidth of 2 kHz was obtained from the 703-W single-frequency laser. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a single-frequency all-fiber amplifier with kHz-level spectral linewidth is achieved at such high output power.